Power

The ability to influence or control people, events or resources.

Setting defaults, controlling access, deciding visibility, holding information.

They need no enforcement and give nobody anything to object to, yet almost nobody changes them.

A ranking drop removes a seller's customers without removing the seller — so the platform can truthfully say it banned nobody.

Power produced by how a system is arranged, which continues without anybody deciding to use it.

Network effects, switching costs, infrastructure position.

The position produces the outcome whoever occupies it — a kinder owner of the same position holds the same power.

Portability attacks switching costs; interoperability attacks network effects. Only together do they let you leave without losing people.

Who decides? Who gains? Who bears the cost of an error?

In almost every system the decision and the gain sit in one place and the cost of error sits with somebody else.

For the organisation it is an acceptable percentage; for the person it is their whole outcome.

A real route to human review — which makes it a design question rather than a verdict on automation.